Wichita eagle., 1887-11-11
LIVING AND DYING.
PEOPLE WHO DISREGARD THE
LAWS OF PHYSICAL HEALTH.

Idiot-ChronIc Observation-Disclosures
Cverstudy.
wish to enable my readers to see that liv-
ing is the whole duty Of nlan-to increase life,
to enlarge life. TO make it strong, vigorous
and self reparative. Man, having power
over his own life and over its capacity, sins
who fails to make his living come short Of its
highest possible ends A human life that is
only degradation of force to brutal ends
reverses the object of nature. So intertwined
are moral life and physical life that man
VINO disregards the laws of physical health
and vital functioning cannot be a moral man.
Neither can diseased organism see tne world
as it ought to be seen, or use it as i ought 10
be used
The distinction between doctor and priest
has been made quite too marked. Man is not
made up of two separate entities one Of
which he intr;lsts to US with our pills, and the
other to preacher with his creeds, but is a
single whole being. II he uses himself badly
in one direction, he uses himself badly in all
directions. Living involves dying; but right
living is such use of material that our nat
ural and daily dying does not weaken our
selfhOod
Let me use illustration as a safety valve.
Walk down Olive street with me and lei us
look at life as we see it. Here we come upon
a feeble, paralytic creature, who is labor
iously working his way with two slaves You
tell me it would be sin for me to kill that
man. He is one of my patients. His life is
a burden to himself and to others. A mere
puncture or ore slight overdose would snuff
HIM out But you say right-it would be
criminal for me- TO destroy even Dad life.
1t would be wrong for him to commit suicide
But what has he been Going for years? He
Las steadily committed suicide for thirty
years He began to destroy life by overwork
and disregard of the laws that control living.
To be sure, he stopped short of absolute dis
Indignation.
Our next collision is with vagabond,
blear eyed and every feature swelled and
dlsGgured His brain and body are equally
foul, and the very capacity for sensation
above the animal is lost. He is, in general
terms, the victim Of Incorporate living. He
devi.alzed himself by lust Statistics show
rs it Is not so difficult to save criminals as it
is the icentious, for the thief may be full Of
life; in the other case vitality is exhausted.
With the criminal you have only the task Of
blasting life to honorable channels; but the in
temuerate have no life to bias-it is exhausted
The tramp is death afoot-afoot and spread
l!1 pestllence.
Ii viii not be difficult for us in this walk of
onrs to find the home of an idiot; for in this
city of intelligence there are many of these
intellectual wrecks What is an idiot? A
case Of starvation Of the brain. Idiocy, &C
cording to the best authorities, is an instance
of arrested development of the brain, and
the nerves that wait Oh the brain-Generally
arising FROM lack of nutrition before birth.
Therefore the children of hcentious paupers
frequently are idiotic. and always are more
or less deficient in intellect. Their parents
lack lie TO beget brain, ths-Ssat OF self con-
scious power; and what they do not naturally
lack they waste. 49,
Let US pass on to the houses of chronic pow
erty WHAT is tho matter with these fami-
lies! Give to them as much as you win, they
are always poor. The larger part of paupers
are such hersditarily. 1t is a class of devital-
god human beings, who do not inherit life
enough TO do more than beg Il is partial
death Waste is greater than repair to the
hi CHER functions. Fortunately, in a few gen
erations vitality is wholly exhausted. So
,iety by charity, only encourages this living
leGth The remedy for paupelism is the re-
noval OF causes that devitalize.
We shall have already stumbled upon more |
han one case of drunkenness. Intemperance |
ias Its basis in other evils. 1t is preposterous
@ suppose that 50 many would deliberately !
ace the chances of misery and abasement.
n most cases We know that intoIicants are |
.sed only as stimulants By reckless waste /
II vitality the person fSelS exhausted. His
-itai forces are run down. He Uses alc0ho
Il sons form to whip them UP. This can 20
lone for short time, but sada insd4e Eisr de-
and finally infdAAI sSoyou
AVE the druulavd at last, tie sbsttaGle that
ocety sneers at, but that society constantly
Then our reformers try to
nGuce the poor fellows 10 give up the intoxi-
ant 1t is of 70 use if they do, unless you
All III some way give them back measure
4 working vitality.
OF all the studying of this studious age not
0 per cent. is based on physiological law 1t
system Of excessive waste Nature
volved out Of the brute age an intel ectuaI
&c; bat the masses are unable to compre.
end method OF adjusting life to high and
AZ nsc thought. The re.Ht is broken down
cholaTS III every direction, dyspeptics and
nfeebled as well as morally disabled victims
deyital zing methods Of STUDY. Hence
ur students also largely rely upon stimu-
ants.
But we cannot stop our visits yet, for want
on to see that not only are idiocy, intemper-
nee, RIGHTEOUSNESS, pauperism insanity SIM
y phases CT causes CT results of impaired
itaiity, but that all the diseases which infest
lie intellectual lie are Of the same sort
uSt, passion, anger, intemperance destroy
ls memory. The Judgment loses its capacity
nder tie influence Of depleted system
Tents! vision becomes blurred What right |
lew OF life, or of any interest that concerns
:, can a vicious person havel The tramp
'avels over IA dozen states, but he sees only
ebaucheIy and vulgarity. Should his eye
Ter begin 10 see the purity that dwells in
De sunrise he would perfcrce cease his vag-
bondage. On the contrary, his moral sight
rows DINNER and his moral Will grows 1
eaker. His universe is the same as yours,
ally nominally; literally and actually he
wells III another universe Nj Maurire NJ